In his new creation Xin Peng Wang risks a glimpse behind the curtain of artistic creation. He takes the audience on a tour of his inner struggle to find the mystic moment between action and standstill, between noise and silence – effect and affect. “Sometimes” says Wang “you have to pause and think about what you do and why. That’s part of the responsibility we take on by taking our first breath and which we can’t deny even after we'll take our last one.”

On 30th of May 2017 Xin Peng Wang will travel to Moscow. Together with his team he will participate in the gala of the Prix Benois de la Danse. Two couples of the company will be dancing in the prestigious show: Lucia Lacarra and Marlon Dino will perform a duet choreographed by Russell Maliphant; Ida Kallanvaara and Giacomo Altovino will present a duet from the piece "Hora" by Edward Clug who is nominated for this year's Prix Benois. He created the piece especially for Ballett Dortmund earlier this year.

Xin Peng Wang interacts in this cooperation with the Opus Magnum of the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He transforms it into a surface where the baroque capacity to suffer meets the pressure of modern life. The passion of christ becomes the passion of human kind.

A very interesting cooperation between the singers of the Bachchor, the musicians of the live orchestra and the young dancers of Ballett Dortmund.

Goethe’s drama „Faust“ starts with a bet between god and the devil.Is man just a a victim of his own instincts and passion or does he knows of the good, the true?Will it succeed to corrupt him through and through? Faust is a famous wise man, who has researched anything the world can offer. However, he is not happy nor satisfied. He wants to explore the last secrets of creation. Like Faust, we also seek complete knowledge nowadays, but we need to be aware of the price we might have to pay for this. Knowledge is based on conscience. This is the crucial and substantial test for all of us, over and over again...

Premiere: February, 13, 2016, Dortmund opera.More: February 19, March 13/27, April 1, May 1/21, June 4, July 1

Since 1984 the theatre and the friends of concerts in Dortmund are promoting a program called the “Bajazzo” to support young artists. The Junior Ballet of Northrhine Westphalia was awarded this price in April.

Since 1976 the City Ring Dortmund awards personalities for their outstanding services to the city of Dortmund ( www.city-ring.do.de). This prize was awarded to Xin Peng Wang on January 13. City Ring president Dirk Rutenhofer honored the artist during his ceremony speech in the Westphalian Club of Industries: “Dortmund has been developed to be a reknowned centre for dancing and a main attraction drawing many visitors to the city of Dortmund.”

based on the novel of Thomas Mann, Ballet from Xin Peng Wang, Music by Lepo Sumera

Premiere: November 8, 2014, Theater Dortmund

On July 28, 1914 two gunshots fired in Sarajevo changed the world. Visions of the apocalypse in the decade before World War One were captured by Thomas Mann in his benchmark novel. An X-ray detects a small spot on the lung of young Hans Castorps. Though benign and not dangerous, it affords him the opportunity to escape his surroundings. He spends seven years in the striking landscape of the Swiss Alps, among suffering and dying patients in a tuberculosis sanitarium. He lives amongst the moribund. He learns that his increasing interest in death is in fact his hunger for life, and that illness is rather a cry for love. Until those gunshots are fired in Sarajevo. They also change his world.

In June 2014 the Junior Ballet of Nordrhine Westphalia was founded in Dortmund.

It is based in the ballet center. Six female and six male dancers, aged 18-20, educated in a recognized ballet school or postgraduate program, will practice three years with the Dortmund Ballet company, performing with them on stage twice a year.

In addition, they work on their own performances with top choreographers and perform at local and regional states, also working with schools and imigrants.

The Junior Ballet provides a supplement to standard education practiced and recognized worldwide. It provides for the first time additional courses like German (language), contract law, alimentation and nutrition and more. This gives an enhanced preparation for the challenges the professional dancer faces.

The students come from seven different countries and have been selected from 4000 applicants. They commenced their training in August 2014.

With WIEN!!, a number of events around the city of Vienna, Xin Peng Wang in cooperation with the HCC introduces his new creation GESCHICHTEN AUS DEM WIENERWALD – Viennese Stories. The first event preceding the upcoming debut performance of this new story ballet based on a folk play and drama by Ödön von Horváth gives insight into the work of Xin Peng Wang. Enjoy an evening seeing behind the curtain, food is provided, so save the date!

With great pleasure ballet director Xin Peng Wang starts the new season again with this grandiose event. International star dancers can be admired in Dortmund: Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg from London, Adiarys Almeida Joseph Gatti from the Boston Ballet, Grettel Morejón and Osiel Gounod from the National Ballet of Cuba, Xu Yan and Sun Ruichen from the National Ballet of China, Filipa de Castro and Carlos Pinilos from the National Ballet of Portugal, Noah Gelber and Katharina Markowskayain in a new play from William Forsythe, and last but not least excellent dancers from the Ballet Dortmund.

The new photo book delivers insight into the artistic work of Xin Peng Wang. Visually scenic highlight of great ballet produktions. Essays of the famous dance critic Dorion Weickmann and the art historian Rebecca Schönsee engrosses the reflection about the creator of the „ballet miracle Dortmund“.

This illustrated book is purchasable at the thatre box office, before and after all Ballet performances in the Opernhaus and at Mayersche Buchhandlung, Westenhellweg for 28,- Euro (Softcover, japanesee Broschur). Furthermore a high-class, 100 pieces limitied special edition is released, alll autographed by Xin Peng Wang (Hardcover/japanese Broschur, 98,- Euro).